Vagus nerve stimulation inhibits heroin-seeking behavior induced by heroin priming or heroin-associated cues in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 494, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 70-74

  Liu, Huifen ^a   Liu, Yijun ^b   Yu, Jing ^a   Lai, Miaojun ^a   Zhu, Huaqiang ^a   Sun, Anna ^a   Chen, Weisheng ^a   Zhou, Wenhua ^a  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Addiction; CAMP response element binding protein; FosB; Heroin; Relapse; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DIAMORPHINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOSB;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELAPSE; TRAINING; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CUES; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; MALE; NARCOTICS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SELF ADMINISTRATION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 79953037641     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.02.059     Document Type: Article

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